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(ModeL) H. T. BRUNET & J. G. DEVEZE.

FRAME FOR PRESERVING THE EDGES OP COPY BOOKS;

No. 306,715. Patented Oct 21, 1884.

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HONORE r. BRUNET AND Jones 0. DEVEZE, or SISTERON, FRANCE.

FRAMEFOR PRESERVING THE EDGES OF COPY-BOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,715, dated October 21,1884.

Application filed September 10. 1885. tllfodel.) Patented in France April 5, 1883, No.15l,625; in England July 5, 1883, No. 3,328, and in Belgium July 27, 1883, No. 62,146.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, HONORE THEOPHILE BRUNET, professor, and Jonas CHARLES DE- viazn, proprietor, citizens of France, residing at Sisteron, Basses Alpes, in the Republic of France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Portfolios, (for which we have obtained patents in England, No. 3,328, dated July 5, 1883, for fourteen years; France, No.

port-folio. Figs. 2 and 3 are sections on the lines 1 2 and 3 4, respectively.

a, Fig. 1, is a card-board cover composed of two leaves that are hinged together, its dimensions being somewhat larger than the paper or papers it is intended to protect.

I) is the metal frame, the width of whose sides and ends-will vary to suit the margin of the paper to be preserved, the depth being sufficient to receivethe thickness of the paper and card-board cover a combined. The angles of the frame may be rounded. One of the sides is pierced with holes to receive a hinge, pin, or equivalent cord, by which the card-board cover a is hinged to the frame I). site side of the frame bis furnished with the pivot-ed hasp f of metal, which folds over the card-board cover a.

\Vhen the copy-book or other paper is not The oppo- 5 in use, it is inolosed in the card-board cover, 0

which-forms a kind of portfolio, and when in use the book or paper rests on the card-board cover, and the margin is protected by the frame b.

The frame may be cut from a sheet of metal, 45

or be made of a band of steel, iron, or copper with the angles bent up and made thicker than the flat parts of the frame.

We claim as our invention The metal frame I). for containing copy or other thin books or sheets of drawing or other paper, combined with the double cover a, to which said frame is hinged, and with the hasp f, substantially as herein shown and described.

H. r. BRUNET. J. o. DEVEZE.

Witnesses:

A. BLr'rrRv, R0131. M. Hoornn. 

